Advanced data mining tools for exploring large astronomical databases

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4477, Issue , 2001, Pages 61-75

  Longo, G ^a   Tagliaferri, R ^b,c   Sessa, S ^d   Ortiz, P ^a   Capaccioli, M ^a   Ciaramella, A ^b,c   Donalek, C ^b   Raiconi, G ^b   Staiano, A ^b,c   Volpicelli, A ^b  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data Mining; Data Visualization; Fuzzy Similarity; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ASTRONOMICAL DATABASES;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0012983973     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.447191     Document Type: Article

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